11/08/2007

Chapter 4 of Chasing Midnight (my version)

The same thing happened. Nicole jolted out of bed. Everything was blue. This time Nicole went outside. She saw nothing. Wait, there was someone… someone flying. The flying person landed on Nicole’s roof.

“Hey! You! Get down here!”

The person jumped off. Nicole almost fainted when she saw it was Kaye.

“Kaye, you can fly?”

“Duh! Everyone has a power in the midnight hour. We are midnighters.”

“Did you come up with that word? Midnighters?”

“No, I have to show you someone.”

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“Grab my hand. I promise I won’t drop you.”

“Ok, but where are we going?”

“You’ll see.”

They landed on the bank of the Chattahoochee River.

“I want to show you someone Nicole. Jessica, come out!”

Jessica was an old name. No one Nicole’s age had a name like that, in fact Nicole was an old name. Nicole’s parents were old-fashioned, so they used an old name. Everyone Nicole knew had a cool name: Kaye, Tally, Lace, even Dess, but no Jessica.

Jessica was a teenager a little bit older than Nicole. Nicole noticed something weird about Jessica, she was wearing gloves in September.